Susannah (Hood) Kinney Tapley
The daughter of Nathaniel Hood, 1707-1755, and his wife Abigail Potter, of Topsfield, Mass.

"Addendum #1"
"The photo of the newly resurfaced original sketch of Susannah Hood Kinney Tapley states that her age is 78 at the time of the rendering. If true, it would put the year of this sketch at approx 1823. My prior estimation of death occurring in 1818 would be premature IF this was truly Susannah's age at the time. Even if this is a new true date, then we still know that Alexander Tapley was deceased by Oct of 1824 and that no "inventory" was performed as was always done when there was something to be divided from the wife's holdings, as he left nothing in his will directly to Susannah. So my prior long range possibility of Susannah's passing was by Tapley's death (1824) or at the very latest before youngest son Andrew sold the property and home his mother and stepfather lived on in 1826. To reiterate, I am convinced Andrew would never have moved north to be near his older siblings until this event occurred."
Jerry Kuntz, 9 August 2018

The last known physical citation evidence of Susannah's being alive is a deed that she and Alexander Tapley, her husband, had signed on 26 Aug 1818 in a document of sale that wasn't actually ever acted upon.
To arrive at a closer timeline and what I believe may be within a month or two we need to follow a line of deeds for three particular lots of land and associated verbiage as well as Alexander's will.
In Alexander's will, written on 17 Dec 1810 and proved 1 Nov 1824 (hence his death month would have been Oct, (possibly a month earlier) there is reference to a particular piece of land that upon Susannah's death (presumably following his own) would be sold and the proceeds split amongst all his heirs (individual names unmentioned). This was Lot #10 in Burton, and clearly would provide an answer to narrow when Susannah died. However, this lot was sold before Alexander and Susannah's demise, but the sale still allows us to hone in on more facts.
Before we see the end of this journey we must start at the beginning of three pieces of property in Burton within fairly close proximity to Israel Kinney's Lot #1, and these are Lot's #9, #10 and #11. Lot #9 (83 acres) was an original land grant to Abraham DePeyster, #10 (93 acres) was the original grant to John Atherton, and #11 (56 acres) was a 50/50 split between the same two men. Alexander Tapley eventually ended up with all three properties by 5 July 1809. Lot #9 was sold by DePeyster to Alexander's son Nathaniel on 26 Aug 1791. Then Lot #10 and the 1/2 of #11 was sold via mortgage by Atherton and Atherton and DePeyster to the Sayres brothers, James and John on 28 Dec 1790 and mortgage was fully paid and released on 15 Aug 1793.
These same Lots #10 and #11 were then sold by the Sayres brother's to Alexander Tapley on 22 Jan 1795. This date has significance as he married Susannah Hood Kinney just two months later on 29 Mar 1795, and presumably they made their new home on this property, Lot # 10 near her old home on Lot #1 and her children on that side of the river as well as Alexander's son Nathaniel on the adjoining Lot #9.
The next real estate move was that of Alexander selling his son, Nathaniel, Lots #10 and 11 on Dec 1798. We cannot be sure, during all this if Alexander's original land grant, Lot #83 on the Maugerville side of the River, was ever sold. We have not come across any record of it. Perhaps he and Susannah and whatever children were left in the household went back over and lived there; or, remained in the house on Lots #10 and #11.
The next real estate transfer was the sale of Lot #'s 9,10 and 11 by Nathaniel to his father Alexander on 5 July 1809.

On 12 Dec 1810, Alexander gifted Lot #9, only, to Andrew Kinney for no financial value for "love" and setting him "off in life" (my quotes) as his guardian. Also just 5 days later on 17 Dec 1810 Alexander wrote his will.

A quick side point here is that while the age of 21 for males was considered full adulthood and ability to own legally property on one's own, the earlier age of 18 was considered the point when you could start "owning" with restrictions.
So back to the land records.... Alexander sold on a promissory/mortgage note *with strings* to Andrew, Lots #10 and 11 that he and Susannah lived on (and remember the clause in Alexander's 1810 will!) on 24 Jan 1815. As an aside, Andrew married Martha Webb just a month later on 22 Feb 1815, but I'm sure that was part of the plan in all this.
The clauses to the payback of the mortgage were that Andrew could pay Alexander back the 200 pound value in unspecified increments as possible, and more importantly "from this date forward well and truly support, maintain in sickness and health in a comfortable manner the said Alexander and Susannah his wife during BOTH and EACH (my capitalization) of their lives," then the mortgage was to be null and void and unenforceable once any of the three criteria were met .
Then, the next recorded deed on this Lot #10, dated 13 Oct. 1818 and registered on 22 Oct 1818, that Alexander wrote a release of this mortgage based on Andrew's having satisfied the terms. Whether that was physically paying off the 200 pounds, or his mother died and that would release him from this as well, it doesn't say.
Andrew sold the Lots (#9, 10, and 11) on 1 Dec 1826 on a mortgage to Charles Hazen and that was fully paid and released on 5 Jan 1827. After that date Andrew and Martha removed to Greenfield, Carleton Co. to live near his brothers, Stephen and John. It is possible that Susannah lived to near this date as I believe that Andrew would not have moved until after her demise, and Alexander had died essentially 2 years earlier.

Alexander as previously mentioned, died shortly prior to the probate of his will on 1 Nov 1824. Without the land to split up, all there was left was to give Andrew his farming tools as written, and any monetary value of remaining personal effects to his son Nathaniel Tapley.

I believe that Susannah had died "just" prior to the mortgage release on 13 Oct. 1818, whether it was Aug/Sept or Oct I can't say, but within a short time after her death Andrew and Alexander would have tied up the "business" details as her death would constitute the end of the agreement as "one or both." The other and major contributing factor to this train of thought, is that when Alexander's will was proved, as mentioned there were only his tools to give to Andrew. There was no land to divide whether Susannah was or wasn't alive, and son Nathaniel was to get the money value from the sale of all his other effects. However there was NOT an inventory done on his effects as was usually done while there was a widow/family. This means that after no land, and the farm tools, whatever was left in order to give Nathaniel Tapley the cash value, there was no need to separate Alexander's things from what would be Susannah's.
So to end this lengthy argument: If Susannah wasn't dead in/by Oct. of 1818, as I believe she was, she definitely would have died before Andrew sold all three properties in Dec 1826 to head North.
The contribution of Kinney cousin, Jerry Kuntz, a descendant of two sons of Israel: John (two lines) and Asa. 3 Feb 2018